In the last few years, AI planning techniques have experimented a great advance. One of the reasons for this big expansion is the International Planning Competition (IPC), which enforces the definition of language standards as PDDL+ and new benchmarks. In this paper, we present the new features of STeLLa, a planner that participated in the last IPC, held in Toulouse last April. STeLLa is a forward search planner that builds intermediate goals to ease the resolution of the planning problem.